Read the Poem ‘Mirror by Sylvia Plath’ I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.Whatever I see I swallow immediatelyJust as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.I am not cruel, only truthful‚The eye of a little god, four-cornered.Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.It is pink, with speckles. I have …
To read the poem, click here. While it is rooted deeply in Plath’s personal life, her poem ‘Denouement’ becomes universal in exploring the disillusionment from relationships breaking away and of a family life torn apart. Using an extended metaphor of a circus to present the sceptical view of a marriage for show only by bringing …
Vaughan concocts a creative double meaning in the title of his poem, ‘The World’ where it refers to two kinds of worlds – an earthly world for humans and the eternal world for souls. Both these worlds are visualised by the poet, who looks at eternity as a ring of ‘pure and endless light’ – …
Alice Walker’s ‘The Colour Purple’ centres around the life of a young girl named Celie as she grows up in a male-dominated African American community in the early 1900’s where domestic abuse, incestuous rape and chauvinism had been rampant. The treatment of women, especially women of colour, is obtrusively portrayed through constant objectification and abuse …
‘The Good Morrow’ rests on the idea of the reflections of an overwhelmed lover waking up to the realization that this night with the partner has been a discovery of life itself and this morning brings a spiritual awakening for him. After drawing a blank on their earlier existence, he negates their separate existence as …
The metaphysical poets wrote of eternal life and of the divine connection between the Man and God through metaphysical images.. Herbert articulates this concentration of the metaphysics in his poem, ‘The Pulley’ which uses the speaking voice of God in the process of making Man, illustrating a concrete imagery with the different characteristics of man …
Plays rely on the exposition to portray its characters in their actual forms, introducing their characteristics and what makes them stand out. The exposition also allows the play to formulate a pathway for it to follow, adding momentary conflicts or hinting at something that would contribute to the play’s rising action. Williams follow the conventional …
Discuss the expository elements in the first two scenes of The Streetcar Named Desire. Read More »
‘The Kite Runner’ is a contemporary novel about the war-torn Afghanistan, focusing on the life of a young Afghan boy, Amir and his growing up process from living a lavish and sheltered life in Kabul to moving to a lower-middle class lifestyle in America. Through Amir’s experiences and the transitioning to a new life, Hosseini …
How does the war change the life of the rich and the poor in Afghanistan? Read More »
Like many other Shakespearean plays, Othello has a graphic and articulate use of literary devices that sculpts out both the characters and the play itself, with specific devices used in creating specific effects. Shakespeare has relied on irony through and through with the majority of his plays, Othello being no different, where he uses about …
The play of Othello revolves predominantly on the idea of race and culture, where the character of Othello, a Mauritanian descendant, is highlighted as the protagonist in a stage dominated by European descendants. This promulgates the distinction between Othello and the other characters in the play, where he is completely separated and almost alienated, giving …
How much does Othello’s blackness represent his fall? Read More »
